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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 8h

The Ottoman Empire was peak Western civilization

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10h

The Being Heumann biopic *Absolutely Does Depict The Black Panthers Breaking In To The Federal Building With Hot Meals During The 504 Protests, Holy Shit I Cannot Wait* youtu.be/CQp2pUXLvJk?...

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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 14h

If you're at a loose end on a Sunday evening, here's a closer look at some very lovely and multi-layered art I've been spending way too much time examining. Printing Printed Patterns: From kimono to mokuhanga majnouna.substack.com/p/printing-p... #caravanserai #mokuhanga

Image with the title of the piece in the foreground, and a cropped detail from a japanese woodblock print in the background, showing an elegant woman with her arms raised, looking over her shoulder, but without context to explain what she's doing.

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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 20h

This isn't even on the Guardian's front page any more. Really striking how much more coverage and how much more liberal anger the factual statement Zionism is racism got than European diplomats being attacks Israeli colonists. Colonists who also attack and kill Palestinians with impunity.

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Israeli settlers attack European diplomats in West Bank

French mayor and archbishop also attacked during violent attempt to stop Palestinians harvesting olives

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 21h

"Oscar supposed to be grouch. Now he suck-up."

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Biblia Arabica @biblia-arabica.com · 16/10/2026

@vevianzaki.bsky.social and Ronny Vollandt travelled to Egypt on behalf of Biblia Arabica to secure access to manuscripts for the project and strengthen its network of scholarly and institutional partners. Ronny Vollandt also gifted the entire Biblia Arabica series to the Papal Library.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 16/10/2026

"attributing the suspension to local vendors fed up with Hamas rasising taxes" The AP publishing absolute nonsense. The cause is the Israeli military blockade of the Strip.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 16/10/2026

This morning Israeli settlers nearly beat Washington Post journalist Heidi Levine to death while Israeli soldiers provided cover fire and shot at Palestinians.

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MOHAMED AHMED @thesmallfarm.xyz · 16/10/2026

Hello, my friends! Greetings from Gaza. Look, look—it’s an avocado tree! It sprouted in a tight, unsuitable spot, but I’ll plan a proper place for it once its trunk grows stronger. Please follow my little farm, share, and—if you’re able—consider donating. Winter is coming. bit.ly/help-mohamed

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Talk With Saul @talkwithsaul.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Every single day

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

This is why I'm not worried about AI 'replacing art.' Anyone who says this has no idea of what art is.

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Next Wednesday is the launch for my book on late ancient Gazan literature! Looking forward to getting to speak virtually at Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem with Mitri Raheb, Asma El Khoudary, Abaher El-Sakka, and Sari Nusseibeh — along with Palestinian students and faculty

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Jay Moschella @jaymoschella.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The late art historian Lilian Armstrong used this edition to show how illuminators were adapting to the uptake of print. She found lots of illuminated copies of this ed., many of which were finished with a technique that used woodblock stamps to create diagrams that could be painted over by hand

The title page of the BPL copy, which was illuminated fully by hand. Note the flowing shapes and the very thin pen lines

A copy of the same edition at the Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University (call no. 06056). Note the heavy outlines of the vines and the rougher details. These borders were produced by an applied/stamped impression from a woodblock, added after printing, then colored in by hand.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

Penguin would rather shut down a profitable book series than listen to Palestinians.

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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 15/10/2026

I'm putting the final touches on this talk which I'm giving Saturday (8 pm London time, I think). One last exposé of Abbasid period art pigments/dyes for the year, and then I'll focus on my writing and translating for a while. #bookarts www.pigmentsrevealed.com/upcoming-eve...

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

Every new tech "wearable" is about sneaking around consent. Corpos know AI surveillance is incredibly unpopular, so their bugs (literally, it's called "Bee") are designed to be discreet. "No one knows you're recording" is a feature. If I catch you with one of these in my lecture, I will destroy it.

Amazon’s personal AI wearable maker, Bee, is announcing its first new products since being acquired by the retail giant last year. The tech company on Thursday introduced the Bee Frontier, the next generation of its device that can be worn on the wrist or pinned to clothes, along with Bee Eclipse, a credit-card-sized device that magnetically attaches to the back of your smartphone.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

UBlock Origin is a free extension for almost every browser on every device. It stops this and also most of the other ad slop that's in everything now.

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 14/10/2026

Proponents of two states (their parlance: a "demilitarized Palestinian state") in the West have to contend with the fact that neither the supposedly sovereign Lebanon nor Syria possess the right or the ability to attack Israeli soldiers occupying Lebanese or Syrian territory, according to the West.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

Supremely weak statement that *might* have gotten her over the line in 2024, but certainly won't be enough in '28. I'm pretty sure she's still never said the word "Palestine" in public.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

BDS WIN: NYC rejects Israel bonds! After over a year of growing pressure from the Break the Bonds NYC campaign, City Comptroller Mark Levine has finally backed down from his dangerous and irresponsible pledge to reinvest the city pension fund in Israel Bonds.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

If the publisher actually cared they would've taken this to court and won, since a High Court alread ruled that the proscription is unlawful.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

Here's my Charter of Ethical AI Use in the Creative Industries. Feel free to copy it. nickposegay.com/publications/

Publications
100% organic, home-grown, slop-free, artisanal publications. No AI use now or ever.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

Arabic medical text from the 11th century, listing recipes for perfumes and ointments found in Ibn Sina's renowned "Canon of Medicine." The main text was copied in Hebrew characters (i.e. 'Judaeo-Arabic'), and a second hand added the red and green ornamentation in Arabic (and Hebrew) script.

Badly torn brown parchment bifolium with 8 paragraphs of Judaeo-Arabic text in black ink. Between the paragraphs are headings in a mix of Hebrew and Arabic script written in red and green ink, along with decorative symbols including floral rosettes. The background is blue and a yellow label reads T-S Ar.11.31 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-AR-00011-00031/2).

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 13/10/2026

Someday, when the bubble bursts and the AHA comes crashing down, historians will come begging on their knees for primary sources. Philologists will be waiting, and they will not forget all the times they were told "editions aren't real publications." Still they will say: "Here, it's open access."

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 13/10/2026

There has also been a huge chilling effect on communication between ostensible co-workers in Middle Eastern Studies and related disciplines. Many of the most outwardly functional departments have adopted unofficial "don't ask don't tell" policies towards Palestine.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 13/10/2026

Good evening and f*** my alma mater in particular

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 13/10/2026

That president (Mohamed Morsi) was Egypt's one and only democratically elected head of state, winning the first presidential election after the mass protest movement that overthrew the old dictatorship in 2011. The current Egyptian strongman led a coup against him and declared him a terrorist.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 13/10/2026

The "unrecognized" Bedouin villages in Israel are communities, mainly in the Negev Desert, that are within the 1948 borders but which the state refuses to grant political representation or provide normal services. Many or them have been forced into planned "townships." This is textbook apartheid.

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Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com · 13/10/2026

This slightly maddening medieval Arabic practice of OVERlining text where we would underline it, just to give me a headache. #medievalmanuscripts

Detail from an Arabic manuscript page in black ink with the first word of each recipe written in red, followed with the title of the recipe overlined in red, much confusing

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 13/10/2026

🏺Fallen down a bit of an ancient Egyptian ‘fish palette’ rabbit hole today at work after researching this one currently held at the Cleveland Museum of Art. 📜 www.clevelandart.org/art/1989.32

A palette in the shape of a fish is made of graywacke stone mottled with dark gray, brown, and reddish-brown patches. At the left, a flared tail is marked with fine incised lines. Near the right edge, a circular indentation forms an eye above a tiny notch. Portions of the top and bottom edges feature small incised lines, and a single hole is pierced through the stone near the top center.

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

welcome to the first cnn 2028 democratic presidential primary debate, for the next two hours hillary, pete, gavin, and kamala will take turns explaining why they think ms rachel is a terrorist

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 12/10/2026

Actually incredible how much power the US can wield against countries it provides missile defense systems to. Not just Ukraine, every ally is vulnerable to this.

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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

She condemned the Biden U.S. arms deal with Israel, and as retaliation the Biden administration opened an investigation against her. The Trump administration is actually piggybacking off that Democratic investigation. Both parties are cesspools of Islamophobia.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you ask me, this is one of the most important manuscripts in the Cairo Genizah collections. It's a page from a 9th-century Quran with text from Sura 11 (Hud) about the prophet Noah (vv. 43-50). Despite this origin, it was found in a synagogue and likely owned by a Jew. @theul.bsky.social

Light, stained, horizontal parchment folio from a Quran codex, showing 8 lines of Arabic text in black ink. Red dots mark some of the vowels in the text. The margins are wide and several creases are visible running vertically across the page. A pencil label in the bottom right reads T-S Ar.38.8 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-AR-00038-00008/1).

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Unsurprisingly, four days later, mathematicians have weighed in. And the results are equivocally valuable at best. More importantly the dump has flooded the zone with shit, which is precisely in line with this industry’s weaponized agnotology. Now actual scholars have to waste their time on this.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 11/10/2026

Owing to the extensive use of machinery, and to the division of labour, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and, consequently, all charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine…

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

Really not a fan of how everyone with missiles seems to have agreed that international airports are military targets now.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The splendid Sarah Derbew has a new article in AJP on "From Aksum to Athens." It explores literary understanding of Aksum (modern Ethiopia) via Greek & Ge'ez (ግእዝ, aka Classical Ethiopic): She "examine[s] various descriptions of the 6th-century ce Aksumite ruler Kaleb." muse.jhu.edu/article/1002...

Museum number
1910,1207.1
Description
Gold coin. (whole)
Half-length bust of Kaleb right, crowned, holding stick, flanked by two wheat-stalks, in beaded inner circle.
Half-length bust of Kaleb right, wearing headcloth, holding stick, flanked by two wheat-stalks, in beaded inner circle.
State
Associated with: Aksumite Kingdom Africa: Aksumite Kingdom
Authority
Ruler: Kaleb
Cultures/periods
Aksumite
Production date
500-525 (circa)
Production place
Minted in: Aksum (town)
Africa: sub-Saharan Africa: Ethiopia: Tigray: Aksum (town)
Materials
gold
Dimensions
Die-axis: 12 o'clock
Weight: 1.60 grammes
Inscriptions
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription position: obverse
Inscription language: Greek
Inscription script: Greek
Inscription translation: King Khaleb
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription position: reverse
Inscription language: Greek
Inscription script: Greek
Inscription translation: Son of Thezenas
Bibliographic references
BMCAK / Catalogue of the Aksumite Coins in the British Museum (409, p.40)
Anzani 1926 / Numismatica Axumita (142)
Akbarnia et al 2018 / The Islamic World: a History in Objects (p.21, fig.3)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
royal/imperial
plant
Associated names
Named in inscription & portrayed: Kaleb
Named in inscription: Tazena
Ruler: Kaleb
Acquisition name
Purchased from: Messrs W S Lincoln & Son
Acquisition date
1910
Department
Money and Medals
Registration number
1910,1207.1
C&M catalogue number
BMCAK (BMC Aksumite)(40)(409)(40) now at the British Museum

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

Two-state solution but one state controls the other's roads for some reason.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

Outright censorship from the Labour-run state news agency

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

I don't plan to see this film. If it's about bearing witness, there is plenty of testimony from Palestinian victims available. I don't have a compelling urge to hear it from the IDF too. If you feel like hearing about atrocities from the perpetrators makes them more real, you should ask yourself why

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Samira Mohyeddin @smohyeddin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Thousands marched in Toronto protesting against three years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and calling on Canada to impose a two arms embargo.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

Serious question for anyone who thinks Netanyahu's downfall will improve conditions for Palestinians: What should be done if the occupation of East Jerusalem, the censorship of Palestinian history, and the indoctrination of schoolchildren continue under a new Prime Minister?

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 10/10/2026

East Jerusalem is under illegal occupation according to international law and nearly every government. This is Israel imposing ideological censorship on children living under military rule. Every Israeli political party supports this.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 10/10/2026

Dystopian, but my true fury comes from people saying tuna fish. What, you have tuna fish for lunch and chicken bird for dinner? Maybe a side of beef mammal? I don't fucking think so.

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